Chapter 345 – Ewenny’s Back
After returning from the hospital, Larissa received a call from Phoebe, spoke to Nathanael’s mother, and left in a hurry.
It was about five o’clock in the afternoon when Larissa went back.
“You’re back. why didn’t Nathanael come back with you?” Nathanael’s mother had a smile on her face as she looked to speak to Larissa.
This made Larissa a little confused, she thought that when she came back Nathanael’s mother would be mad at her for not helping with the kids, but to her surprise Nathanael’s mother did smile at her and didn’t look mad at all.
Larissa smiled back and looked at Nathanael’s mother and called back, “No, I didn’t call Nathanael Lora.”
She was actually just coming back to talk to Nathanael Lora and stop by for dinner, she had a variety show to go to tonight that was going to start filming in the evening.
If she wasn’t worried about Nathanael’s mother being angry, she wouldn’t have had to make this trip over, after all, neither she nor Nathanael Lora were married yet, and there was no need for her to have to stay at The Lora family.
Seeing that Nathanael Lora hadn’t come back yet, and she and Nathanael’s mother couldn’t just stand there, she casually looked for something to talk about, “Auntie, is that child still crying now? It’s time to feed the child something at this hour.”
“… No need.” Nathanael’s mother looked a little unnatural as she replied back.
Seeing that Nathanael’s mother was a bit strange, Larissa asked curiously, “Are you saying that you don’t need to feed the child?”
Nathanael’s mother, who is heartbroken about the child like that and treats that child as her own grandchild, says this, which makes Larissa really feel a bit strange when she hears it.
“No, I mean the child isn’t hungry … yet,” as soon as Nathanael’s mother said this, she realized that she herself had a speech problem when she said this. How would she know if the child was hungry or not, the child was only six or seven months old and wouldn’t cry out for hunger.
Larissa had also heard the baby crying, so if Nathanael’s mother had said that the baby was sleeping, she would have thought it was normal.
In the midst of her confusion, a person came out from inside, it was Ewenny, appearing right in front of Larissa’s eyes, she was holding the baby in her arms, Larissa was surprised, “What are you doing here?”
Nathanael’s mother, who was beside her, immediately looked as if she had failed to hide something.
On the contrary, it was Ewenny, with a smile on her face, who walked towards Larissa in a graceful manner, without a hint of coziness, as if she were a hostess, “My boy is here. Larissa, it’s been such a long time since we’ve seen each other, and I was just thinking of contacting you when I get tomorrow, or when I have the time.”
“I really didn’t expect to see you here.” She smiled warmly, her words intimate.
“Were you really not expecting it? How could you not expect it? A normal person, one with no intellectual problems, could expect that a fiancée would go to her fiancé’s house.” Larissa’s voice trailed off, her eyes looking askance at her.
These words can’t be made to sound hostile. Ewenny’s face instantly showed an embarrassed and aggravated expression, “Larissa, I …”
Seeing this situation, Nathanael’s mother on the side looked at Larissa and said, “You don’t have to be serious to talk to Ewenny like that, she didn’t say anything wrong, she meant that she should not have expected you to come over tonight.”
“So you didn’t know I was coming over either?” Larissa asked Nathanael’s mother rhetorically.
At once Nathanael’s mother’s face froze and she was speechless, of course she knew because she was the one who had persuaded Nathanael Lora and Larissa to stay at The Lora family for a few more days so as to cheer up the old man.
Ewenny, who is good at reading people’s words and colors, hurriedly spoke, “Larissa, I just came to pick up a child, I have no other meaning, don’t be angry. Don’t talk to auntie like that, after all, auntie is the elder.”
As soon as the words passed through Ewenny’s mouth, she felt that it was Larissa’s fault, listen to how good she is at talking.
“It’s fine. I don’t mind.” Nathanael’s mother also felt that she was at a disadvantage, after all, Larissa was her future daughter-in-law, and with a grandson popping up on this side of the family, and her grandson’s mother, she was caught in the middle of a difficult situation, and didn’t know how to deal with it.
As soon as Ewenny heard Nathanael’s mother say this, a flash of dissimilarity crossed the bottom of her eyes, yet she was extremely quick to focus on the emotions on her face, revealing a smile, and looking at Nathanael’s mother in a very sweet and well-behaved manner, “Auntie, the child being sent here is really causing you trouble, I’d better take the child away now. ”
“This can’t …” Nathanael’s mother was anxious to speak.
But Ewenny didn’t even bother to listen to what Nathanael’s mother said, and looked at Larissa and said, “Larissa, I didn’t think about affecting the relationship between you and Nathanael. Don’t think too much about it and don’t be hostile towards me. I will take my children and leave now, and even if I have no money or place to stay and sleep on the streets, I will never cause you any trouble.”
Nathanael’s mother looked at Ewenny holding her child to leave, she was even more anxious and went forward to pull, “Ewenny, don’t be in a hurry to leave, but you can’t live outside with your child. You wait, wait for Nathanael to come back, wait for our old man to come back, we’ll sit together as a family to discuss and find a proper solution.”
The term ‘our family’ made Larissa sound uncomfortable.
Since Ewenny was counted as part of The Lora family, what did that make her?
And was Nathanael’s mother identifying Ewenny’s son as Nathanael Lora’s child since she said that? Speculating in her heart, Larissa then looked at Ewenny and asked, “Your child, was born to you and Nathanael Lora?”
Ewenny did not answer, nor did she deny, but her face showed a look of weakness and cowardice for having done something wrong.
Larissa asked again, “I’m asking you, is this child Nathanael Lora’s?!”
“Larissa, don’t think anything, this child has nothing to do with Brother Nathanael. He just looked at me with the child and pitied me, so he agreed to help me take care of the child. I thought that I don’t have any family abroad and I don’t have any friends who can help me take care of the child, that’s why I want to come back.” Ewenny said softly.
That look was full of fear of Larissa, like Larissa had given her some kind of aggravation.
She said this, still not saying it outright, like she was trying to say no, saying no was the look, Ewenny was smart, she knew she couldn’t say it clearly.
From the time she hit on the idea of The Lora family, asking Nathanael Lora to help take care of her baby, to the time she returned home, she had thought of trapping Nathanael Lora, no matter what the method, but what she didn’t expect was that before she even started to exert herself, Nathanael’s mother assumed that the baby was Nathanael Lora’s.
It made her think that God was helping her.
Larissa looked at the child in Ewenny’s arms and reached up to grab one of the child’s hairs, “Get a paternity test, so I can also figure out if this child is Nathanael Lora’s or not.”
But before she could get her hands on the child’s hair, she was blocked by Ewenny, who held the child in her arms, “How dare you? ! Larissa, what are you doing? Even if you hate me or hate me, you shouldn’t lay your hands on a child. He’s less than seven months old and doesn’t know anything yet.”
Because of the distance and the position, Nathanael’s mother saw Larissa’s hand reaching out at the child.
She was startled to hear Ewenny say this, and with the sudden bawling of the child, she ran to the child and saw that the child’s forehead was scratched by her nails.
“Larissa, what the hell are you messing around with?!” Nathanael’s mother chided at Larissa in annoyance because she was distressed about the child.
Nathanael’s mother was protecting the child with one hand as she chided at Larissa, “Ewenny has already said that this child isn’t Nathanael’s, you have to say this and take the child for a paternity test, aren’t you trying to force Ewenny to admit that this child is Nathanael’s in person? ”
“This child is Nathanael’s, what can you do, Ewenny just admitted it, what do you want to do next?!”
What to do?
Larissa’s mouth curled into a self-deprecating sneer, she hadn’t even done anything yet and she was being treated like this by Nathanael’s mother. She looked at Ewenny and saw Ewenny looking down at the baby in her arms with the look of a good mother who cares for her child.
“Baby don’t cry, baby don’t cry, mommy blow you, baby don’t hurt …” Ewenny coaxed the baby with a crying voice.
While she looked at Nathanael’s mother again and spoke, soothing Nathanael’s mother, she deliberately said, “Forget it, Auntie, Larissa didn’t mean to do it, she was just careless.”
She hadn’t done anything at all to the child just now, it was Ewenny herself who had scraped this child with her nails as she swatted her hand away. It was Ewenny herself who had scraped bloody marks on the child’s face.
Nathanael’s mother, full of concern for her child, hurriedly looked at Ewenny and said, “Quickly take the child and apply some medicine first, anti-inflammatory and pain relieving, apply some of both.”
“Irene, bring out the medical kit from home!” Nathanael’s mother finished ordering the maids, she was still uneasy, “This child is so young, will he get infected by bacteria? This is injured, should we go see a doctor?”
The crowd was busy, taking the child back to the couch in the living room to be medicated, Larissa was the only one standing still.
Larissa was looking at Ewenny, wanting to say something more, when her cell phone called, she glanced at the caller ID it was her dad calling, she took the phone and went out to answer the call.
The phone was put to her ear and answered, “Hey dad.”
Larissa’s dad’s voice with anger came from the other end of the line, “Larissa, you need to come back immediately now! Your residence, you have twenty minutes!”
“What’s wrong? Is something wrong?” Larissa inquired twice.
She had a show to record later, and if she was rushing to see her dad, she’d have to ask what it was about, and she’d have to do the math to see if time allowed.
Larissa’s dad on the other end of the line laughed in exasperation, “And you ask me what’s up! How dare you ask me after what you did with that wonderful mother of yours! You hurry back, either take out the stocks, or we’ll immediately go to the police station and sign the paternity severance letter to sever the father-daughter relationship!”
“I, Elbert, can’t afford to raise a daughter like you!”
Doing the math, such a tantrum for Larissa’s dad was the third time Larissa had been with her father in almost thirty years, so she knew the gravity of the situation.
But she still didn’t understand, “Dad, what stock are you talking about?”NôvelD(ram)a.ôrg owns this content.
She could guess that her birth mother must have done something to mention stocks, and she couldn’t have guessed any better.